The Darph

The bar is in hell if a 20 year old satirical style with as many teeth as my late 97 year old grandmother qualifies as speaking truth to power in any meaningful way.

This is why local main streets and shops are so important to keep alive.

Little music shop sold me this amazing 1992 Yamaha RY10 for less then $50 and threw in a really nice mic stand for only $20. On Amazon that gets you a stand that falls over under its own weight

Accidentally left the vintage reel to reel on overnight and blew a capacitor.

I will bring her back to life.

Bluesky: Promote yourself to a quarter of the users and feel good about yourself for doing it

Bluesky: it’s like if Disney pretended they could run an edgy social network

Bluesky: Scream into a smaller void

Bluesky: The friendly data harvesters

I love when Tom Morello speaks. I hate when he plays and performs. I apologize in advance to those with bad taste in music. But the man is smart. He’s politically on point almost always.

It’s cute when liberals still think “vote with your dollars” means anything.

Demand is manufactured. This is supply side economics now. He’s on the air because it’s advantageous to Disney for reasons not obvious to us plebs yet. Not nearly enough people could live without Lilo and Stitch a day

But this is the kind of thing that AI is good for. Not for actually making music. Looking at you, Timbaland

Sometimes I picture my exes on a couch at 8:30pm on a weeknight watching reality tv while their husbands are drinking beer somewhere while I’m taking apart and fixing this old reel to reel machine in my studio.

Not sure if that makes me or them the losers here..

The pumpkin patch in my backyard is yielding wonderful carving pumpkins. It stretched beyond my fence and is crossing the sidewalk to the street now

I’m deep into recording. Learned to never promise a release date but things are getting done. I know it’s been almost 3 years but that’s what happens when artists grow up and have families.

We have 2 of 7 tracks recorded so far.

And these are just 3 of the pumpkins I have growing in my yard this year. Almost ripe

2 of 7 tracks for the new LP are recorded. It comes out when it comes out and it’ll be on Subvert this time along with the back catalog.

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet but sending the army to Chicago (and elsewhere) is about voter intimidation during the midterms and maybe the generals.

Deporting and harassing anyone darker than lily white is just a nice side effect for these losers.

I wish the kids really knew Sonic Youth. Not enough Sonic Youth love out there right now

Mothman means recording.

How long does everyone else work on a single song? I’ve been recording the same one for a week now and wondering if that’s ever normal for anyone else

The moth man watches over the session. Brings it luck. Good vibes. Guides the chord progressions

This pocket calculator does better beats than gear that took me 3 years to pay off. Shit bro, I got ripped off

They’re popping up fast now. It’s summer, actually been recording. New Darph record might really happen this year

Recording fireworks in the moonlight next to my sunflowers. Perfect evening

Have you been to dystopianepoch.com yet? When even the mainstream news sources make the world sound fascist you know things are bad

For the last couple of years I was following a rigid traditional songwriting and recording structure. Now that I’m just playing with sounds again things are really starting to flow.

I do hope to find time to release 2023/2024’s EPs but it’s a pain to dig through old computers for that stuff

Here’s a tiny preview of the process… I’ll be posting a longer write up on how things are progressing soon

I’m told my latest work in progress sounds industrial like NIN. Not sure if it’ll end up being a Darph or a Moss release but it’s definitely experimental so far.

After 6 years and 11 records I don’t think a 3 year break is bad. I’m not blocked, I just really need to mix and release what I finished last year. Must clear out space in noggin to hold new ideas

If you lived through 2001-2008 you can go back to sleep. America is just putting on reruns

Who is using Native Instruments synths like… openly? They’re like if PlaySkool pianos were spyware as far as I’m concerned

Dave Matthews released Everyday which includes the song “I Did It” almost exactly six months prior to 9/11.

I think he did it. We got the wrong guy.